PROBLEM #4
Quality Regression
"Cyclical bug-fixing loops"
— GitHub Issue #4520
The Problem
You ask your AI assistant to fix a bug. It does—but breaks something else in the process. You point out the new bug. It fixes that one, but now the original bug is back. Two hours later, you're worse off than when you started.
This isn't occasional bad luck. It's a predictable pattern. Without memory of what was already working, the AI optimizes locally while degrading globally. Each fix is correct in isolation but destructive in context.
Why It Happens
AI assistants don't maintain a model of 'what was working.' They see the current problem and solve it—without understanding which existing behaviors must be preserved.
No regression testing is built in. The AI doesn't automatically verify that its fix didn't break previously-passing tests. It declares victory based on the immediate task, not system-wide health.
Context loss compounds the problem. If the AI forgets the previous fix attempts, it will literally suggest the same broken approach again—creating an infinite loop of regression and repair.
What Developers Say
"Spent two hours reverting changes because AI kept breaking code"
— Reddit r/ClaudeAI
"From collaborating with Senior Developer to supervising Junior"
— Hyperdev
"Death spiral—each fix introduces new problems"
— Developer forums
"One day clean answer, next day messy code"
— Twitter
THE SOLUTION
11-Dimension Quality Audit
CleanAim® runs comprehensive quality verification after every change. Our 11-dimension audit checks type safety, test coverage, pattern compliance, and eight other quality vectors—ensuring fixes don't create new problems.
The BLOCKER severity level prevents any change that would degrade existing quality. If a fix breaks a previously-passing test, it doesn't get accepted. Quality can only go up, never down.
We track quality metrics across 9,309 test functions. Every change is measured against this baseline. Regression isn't discovered in production—it's caught before the code is ever committed.
The Evidence
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